Speechify is great but ain't no way I'm paying 30/mn for it.

I dont like to read on my phone's small screen. I often use Text to speech to read news and long email. But the app Im currently using has too many restrictions and ads. Recommend me a good text to speech app. Preferably one with other language options. Thanks.

Anyone know the best text to speech app that has natural voices and is completely free. So quality and free?

Hey, I hope this is the right place to ask this, but I struggle so much with reading, due to some neurological conditions and just overall lack of energy.

But I'm actually a bookworm. I usually try to get audiobooks, but often books aren't available as such and also reading the news, lengthy emails etc is very difficult and often I have to wait days until I find a day where I'm well enough to actually do that and it takes ages and afterwards all my energy is gone and I'm having neurological symptoms and am just crushed for days...

Anyways... The question is, does anyone know a good TTS app or browser addon?

If possible nothing big and fancy, just a simple reader with good pronouncing skills, that I can use directly on a browser or in a downloadable app.

If there's a couple of voice options to pick from that would also be really cool.

If you know other subreddits where I can ask this to get more answers, please do let me know!

Free and paid options.I want to read books and documents on the go so I decided listening to it is the best way to go. However I would need to either convert pdfs into mp3s that don't sound terrible or gett a text to speech or eBook reader app for that. I would like free and paid options please. Thanks

A friend recently introduced me to this genre and I love what I’ve read so far! But I’m desperate to find a way to listen to them over long hours. Does anyone know of a text-to-speech app that isn’t unbearable?

Or, alternatively, is there anywhere that I can find audio versions of novels (or web-novels) that are read by fans? I’ve only found a couple of playlists on youtube and I’m struggling to find any others, mostly because I don’t know what to search for. I’d really appreciate as many recommendations as possible! This seems like a very welcoming community and I’m happy to be here ☺️

There seems to be no audiobook version of Unleader by Jane Overstreet. Is there any text to speech platform that i can use to upload the book and listen to it? Also how is Listening.io?

There have been a lot of these, particularly Google text to speech which is ubiquitous and I remember having used Ivona text to speech back in the day which was awesome but was suited more towards navigation so it frequently mispronounced words with those of navigation. Nowadays the TTS market is mostly these older apps, using the default ones (Google's) or paid services like speechify.

What if I told you there are local neural TTS engines for android that work pretty well and have flawless intonations?

Two projects which work amazingly and have android applications for them too -

• https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

• https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx

You can use these on pc too. For android you can try these out by going to the apk engine's website below and downloading the desired apk (there are a lot of them) - https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html

If you feel it works well, go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Text-to-speech output and enable TTS Engine as the default.

Things are going really great for on-device tts.

My TTS engine isn't getting recognized by Voice Aloud Reader or Prestigio, or even Moon reader so these aren't options. Pocketbook didn't work either.

ReadEra does recognize my Microsoft TTS voice engine, but the free version won't let me turn off the screen and I'm not paying for a premium subscription.

So I'd love to get some suggestions. Thank you

Which can reach the most similar to a human voice? I've been searching and couldn't find anything, any suggestions?

Hello There!

I've noticed that there is a lot of TTSE out there, but all of them are really metallic or robotic. Do you guys know any that sounds kinda human? Or if there is even a way to impre the speech?

I've been obsessed with voice input for years. I've used the following tools on my phone:

1. AudioPen

I like it for quick recordings. I think it is a good one for initial practice with speech to text writing. You can change the writing output easily (voice, length, tone, format). I was an early adopter so I got great pricing for the premium version which is now $99 per year. I don’t like the 15 minute time limit and inability to record while switching between apps. https://audiopen.ai

2. Otter

Great for conversations, but you can use it on a monologue too. I’m using Otter to write a course with a group with our virtual meeting transcripts. Paid Otter Pro version is $16.99 per month. https://otter.ai

3. Ultimate Brain Voice Notes

This is my favorite. It integrates with my Notion because I use Thomas Frank’s Ultimate Brain system for Notion. Takes more initial setup, but it's glorious for reducing my administrative burden and digital overwhelm. All I have to do is hit record from my phone, and the transcription shows up in my Notion notes inbox with an AI generated title and even follow up items and a summary. $30 per month for a paid Pipedream account, plus about $0.40/hour for voice recordings. I’m constantly using it. https://thomasjfrank.com/how-to-transcribe-audio-to-text-with-chatgpt-and-notion/

4. Gboard - using it now to write this post by dictating in real time. I use it on my phone to write some texts, emails, etc.

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I know I left out Dragon Nuance, the OG of dictation everyone says is the gold standard. I haven’t tried it yet. I think I might explore it next. $150 for year for Dragon Anywhere.

Any other favorite mobile speech-to-text apps you love for writing?

I was looking for a good and free text to speech app that I could use to turn some of my ebooks into audio books and I tried speechify but the free voices are so distracting that I can even concentrate on the novel. What are the best free apps I could use? Thanks :)

Very recently Ive stopped being able to talk and I need a way to communicate easier. Id write in a notepad but I'm also pretty visually impaired and though I have surgeries for that coming up that should make it better, for now I need to use my phone. Not looking for anything complicated, just something with minimal or no data collection and an option for a feminine voice (I can't stand talking thru a masculine one), and if there's a message log I can scroll that would be nice too. Is there anything on Android like that?

Which app would you say have the best natural voices for text to speech. Also, can you export that speech?

I'm on Android 13 and Samsung One UI ver 5.

natural reader only lets you download a million characters per month, and it is 22$ a month. eleven labs doesnt let you read more than 22k minutes and cant even download it, even for 1.3k$ a month, and cloud tts only allows like500 charcaters at a time. i have 100k's of chacrers i need to copy and download, maybe even millions.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for the best app on Android for dictating texts whether it's on WhatsApp, notepad or other stuff, can you give me some advice Thanks in advance

Paid or free, any options welcome. And it doesn't have to be able to be downloadable just from the Play Store.

From a one time voracious text reader, then switching to audio over the years, I couldn’t return to text. Most likely due to the sensitivity smartphones have caused. So in the absence of any audio copies I’ve used iOS text to speech, REEDY and Podcast Addict apps (Android only), and various other ways to render text to audio.

Would like to hear any alternative mobile apps or technical workarounds others have tried. The ideal for me is just a near natural sounding voice with good pacing, pauses etc.

• Platform independent. iOS, Android, Web and download, Kindle, Nook etc